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You can’t have a people’s democracy as long as corporations are considered people.

Bill Moyers

The quality of democracy and the quality of journalism are deeply entwined.
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Democracy Media Quality
An unconscious people, an indoctrinated people, a people fed only partisan information and opinion that confirm their own bias.
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Fighting Lying Media
Lyndon Johnson believed the poor deserved a better life than the economy was providing them. He thought private power and greed had to be checked by a vibrant democracy.
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Democracy Economy Greed
How do we protect the soul of democracy against bad theology in service of an imperial state?
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Democracy Political Soul
The thing about war is that once it’s triggered, it is unyielding in its appetite. And the more it consumes and gorges, the more it wants.
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Gorges Unyielding War
Theology asserts propositions that cannot be proven true; ideologues hold stoutly to a worldview despite being contradicted by what is generally accepted as reality.
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Couple Reality Religion
Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House – as Brutus loved Caesar.
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Afternoon House Limit Term
The printed page conveys information and commitment, and requires active involvement. Television conveys emotion and experience, and it’s very limited in what it can do logically. It’s an existential experience – there and then gone.
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Commitment Gone Information
I’m angry at what’s happening to America and angry with myself that I can’t do more. I would be miserable if I couldn’t bear witness.
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Angry Bears Country
When ideology and theology couple, their offspring are not always bad but they are always blind.
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Blind Couple Theology
Here is the crisis of the times as I see it: We talk about problems, issues, policies, but we don’t talk about what democracy means – what it bestows on us.
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Issues Mean Revolutionary Ideas
Rockefeller was born to it, and he has made the most of it. But what some critics see as a vast international conspiracy, he considers a circumstance of life and just another day’s work… In the world of David Rockefeller it’s hard to tell where business ends and politics begins
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Another Circumstances Conspiracy Day International Work
Our economy is a plantation run for the aristocrats – the CEOs, hedge funds, private equity firms – while the field hands are left with the scraps.
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Fields Hands Running
I can’t speak for a war that I believe is immoral.
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Believe Speak War
The fault line in American history is now a dividing line in the election and it’s changing the conversation.
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Country Election Fault History
Barack Obama treated too lightly the people and forces determined to destroy him. They spat in his face and didn’t even get ticketed for a misdemeanor.
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Determined Faces People

You can’t have a people’s democracy as long as corporations are considered people.

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